Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hay admits that Eliot believed in the idea of cultural uniformity and that he felt "some Jews" fought counter to this ideal. But she also defends the expatriate poet as "anti a great many things" and for whom, she says, Jews were not particularly important as an object of scorn...
In addition to these critical comments, Ozick's article also has received some positive reviews. Baumel agrees with Ozick's charges that Eliot was anti-Semitic, and Wayne Koestenbaum '80 calls the article a sad but "beautiful" piece by someone who understands the reasons for Eliot's fall, but at...
But six years later, Berryman himself jumped into the frozen waters of the Mississippi River and died.
Given the tragedy which marked most of these poets' brief lives, it is hard to imagine them as role models. But for the latest generation of Harvard poets--who have started their writing careers in the past decade--those prominent writers from the 1940s to the '60s have provided them...
"One would be intensely aware of the presence of poets at Harvard," says Laurans, who currently teaches a similar course on versification at Yale. "I would think it very difficult to be a young poet at Harvard without that sense of history. And that may be daunting, but you also...